Lesson Plans

Our collection of K-12 curricula include timely lesson plans and multi-grade units that promote critical thinking and assist educators in teaching current events topics through the lens of diversity, bias and social justice.

High school students will analyze the nationwide rise of anti-Semitic incidents in the wake of the Tree of Life Synagogue deadly shooting and explore how the escalation of hate operates and how allyship can make a difference.

Could there really be a “gender gap” between what boys and girls earn for allowance? Elementary students learn about and explore the reasons for the gap and express their thoughts through persuasive writing.

Family separations and detentions are happening at the U.S. border. This high school lesson plan helps students understand the issue, learn about asylum and consider their own opinions through persuasive letter writing.

In this high school lesson plan, students explore implicit and explicit bias, learn about recent incidents of everyday bias and self-reflect about situations in which they have experienced or encountered everyday type of bias.

The Justice Department's request to add citizenship question to the 2020 Census causes a great deal of controversy. In this lesson, students learn about the U.S. Census, reflect upon the controversy and express their own point of view by writing a persuasive letter.

Students have an opportunity to learn about and develop empathy for the plight of the Rohingya people in Myanmar and explore what can be done about the crisis, which is being called a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing."

High school students learn about the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission and its related Constitutional principles, and reflect on their own opinions and the views of others through opinion op-eds and essay writing.

This lesson provides an opportunity for students to understand what ableism is and the many ways it manifests, and to consider ways they can be allies and take actions to confront and challenge ageism.